Finall of Club World Cup 2007

This was the final of the club world cup 2007. this was a game between AC Milan and Boca Juniors. AC Milan is European Champion and Boca Juniors is South American Champion. Both clubs have a lot of history and they both are very famous in the world. They both have won this cup three times in their history and whoever wins will be true champion of the world.

It would be tough game as both team are very attacking team and deffensively they are very organized. It was interesting to see who will score the vital first goal. Both team are very aggresive from the start and they both are going for the vital first goal and it was AC Milan who score the first goal in the middle of the first half. Who created the goal? It was bets player in the worlrd, Kaka. hemade fantastic move of taking at least 3 players and gave fantastic through ball to the striker, Inzaghi. It was easy tapping for Inzaghi as goal keeper was out of place.

After that milan Controlled game easily and in the end they won the match comfortably winning 4-2. AC Milan have become true champion of the world as they are the only team who have won the cup 4 times in the history.

Urawa Reds against Etoile Sportive du Sahel

This was the match to decide who will be the 3rd in the competition and the world. Whoever, wins this match will be the third best countries in the world. So even though this game seems to have no meaning, this was very important match for the players and for Japan as if Urawa becomes third best club in the world, this will be the very big achievement in the history of Japan.

This match was very exciting to say the least as both team had hunger to win. Both team showed that they wanetd to be third in the world and it showed how much this game means to the players. Sahel started to match well and they controlled the match and they scored a goal early in the match. However, this was not the crucial goal that would decide the match. As goal went in. Both team showed more hunger to win and Urawa equalized and went ahead in the second half. However, Sahel did not give up and came at Urawa's goal and in the final minutes of the match they scored equalizer. This was the end of game and they went into extra time but still the game was level, so match has to be decided in the penaly and Urawa won the penalty 4-2.

This game showed that passion and hunger can decide the game. Urawa won in the end due to the fact they had bit more passion and hunger for the goal compare to Sahel. I think in any sports people have to have passion for the game.

Urawa Reds against AC Milan

This was the biggest game og Urawa Reds' History and this could be the biggest game of Japanese football league. this was the match all the Japanese society have been waiting for. Urawa Reds against AC milan.

Japanese football club is playing against one of the biggest football club in the world. How wonderful is that for fans of Japanese football. People could not wait for the match to begin. It was just fantastic moment.

Urawa Reds have many Japanese international player in their team, however, it was obvious that AC Milan had much better team. AC Milan have many international team from all over the world and they have the best player in the world at the moment. Kaka!!! At the moment he is untouchable to say the least.

AS the match started Urawa was very aggressive and they played physical football and as AC Milan likes play possession football, Milan had difficulty playing against Urawa. However, Urawa gradually got hang of Urawa's playing style and slowly but surely got into the game. After that result was obvious Milan dominated the game and even though game was 1-0, they should won the game more comfortably.

Kaka was special in this game, no one was able to stop Kaka and he created all chance for AC Milan and without him AC Milan would not be as strong as they are today. He is the vital player for AC Milan

Urawa Reds against Sepahan

It will be for the first time in history if Urawa Reds win this match. What is for the first time? To win in the Club Worlds Cup. None of the Japanese Club have never won in the Club World Cup before and if Urawa win, it will be big success in Japan and every Japanse wanted to Urawa to win. There were so much pressure piling on Urawa Reds as they were representing whole of Japan.

As the game started most of poeple were on TV watching the game. the match was spontaneous and exciting to watch however, this match was so scary to watch because both side had chances and it seemed that Sepahan had better chance than Urawa at start. However, Urawa gradually got into game and started to control the game. And who scored the important first goal? This was the goal all Japanese society was waiting for. This was a goal that decided the match. People knew that who ever scores the first game will win the game as the first goal was so important. Every was happy as it pulled up the motivation of people.

Urawa won the match 3-1 and in the end they won comfortably. However, it was the first goal that was so vital in this game. If Sepahan had scored the first goal you never know what would have happened in the game. The result might have changed. However, as Urawa won the match I became proud of Urawa. They are the Hero of Japanese Society.

Winter Sports

Out of all sports, I am not good at winter sports at all. So it is very fascinating to see figure skating as I wonder how they do such thing while skating. Jumping and going around in circles and so on. How they do that? They must be some kind of Alien that what I think everytime I watch winter sports. It is so wonderful to see such a display.

I remember, one day, I went to skating with all of my friend for the first time in my life. All of my friend had experienced skating before and it was only me that had never skated before. All of my friend were very good at skating and I could not believe the fact that they were so good. I tired and trid but it just does not work. Everytime I try to skate I just go on floor. I just did not have balance to skate. I try to be fancy and jumped I just could not land banged my head lots of time. Finally I banged too much that Idecied to give up jumping. So i decided to skate fast, however, this time I went straight into other people and made a lot of people angry. my firends were laughing at me because I was so terrible at skating.

In the end, I gave up skating it was a experience that I want to forget and I never want to go to skating again.

Hoshino Japan

I was watching baseball yesterday and I was very happy that Japanese national baseball team won. This is because they have now qualified for the next olympics. It was very hard fought 3 games and they showed fantastic fighting spirit.

the first game was against filipin and they won the match comfortably winning the match 10-0. This was a fantastic start as in the first match of qualifier, nerve will allways kick in, and some player can't play upto their usual standard but they showed fantasic motiavation and won the match.

Next game was against South Korea. The forever rival of Japan and this is going to be toughest match of all and if they lose they will get knocked out of the qualifier. As people imagined this was a toughest match. Korea always have high motivation against Japan, I don't know why, but it seems they dont like Japan. Afte hard fought game, they won the match 4-3, thanks to fantastic spirits from players to not give up after they went behind in early stages.

Last game was against Taiwan. this was not easy game either as Taiwan is getting stronger each year and gap between Japan and other Asian nation is getting smaller and smaller. This was also hard fought win as in this match, Japan could not add their runs and they went behind in 6th inning. However, they got runs soon after as in 7th inning they added to 6 runs to win comfortably 10-2 the final score.

It was good day for Japan as they qualified for the olympics and I hope they do well in the olympics.

Joe Cole

http://youtube.com/watch?v=src2H7pg0CY

Joe Cole!! May be He is not the most known player in the world yet he has talent to become world class. His touches are so precise and wonderful that nobody can't imagine what he is going to do next. He is very small for football player. he is about 170cm tall and you can't say he is big for football player yet his skills so outstading that it does not matter if he is small.

When he came to football world he was very skinny and small that he could cope with physical side of English football even though he had great football skills. However, as he got older he has got stronger and stronger and started to cope with physical side of it and started to show his real potential that he can play with world class player and he can be good as the world class player.

He plays for club called Chelsea in England and he is regular at the club. Chelsea is now one of the biggest club in the world due to Russian Owner Roman Abramovic and they have many world class player yet he is regular. This shows that he has grown and could become world class one day.

Johan Cruyff

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yr1VWSntqRg

He made a revoluiton into football seen. He was just genius. He had all skill in the world and one of the skill was named after him be cause he was the first one to do the skill. I t is very unusual in the football that the skill is named after a player. In fact this is the the only that has happened in the football history. this skill is called "Cruyff turn", which is known worldwide.

He showed new style into football and in his era they were invinsible with this attacking style. This was called "total football". this style of play was never beofore tried becausenobody thought of it I suppose. This style is where every player attacks and every player deffend kind of style so it uses a lot of energy. However, it was very effective as there are many people attacking and there are many people deffending. This was done because of Cruyff. He can play anywhere on the field and he showed that this style works and this style is very strong. He was just genius.

He was also a great manager. He had very successful career as a manager as well as player. he lead his team to win many trophies and he was respected by many people. He had very strong character adn that why he was very successful.

Platini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfAxRE7PJ14

Platini the French football genius before Zinedine Zidane. He was wonderful player at his time and he is one of the all time legend in the football history. What was so good about him? It was everything about him that was brilliant. Especially the Free kicks it felt like it always goes into goal.

He was Italian Immigrant when he came to France. He grew in France, from young age he was showing the sign og becoming great player. Every thought that he would become one of the best player in the history and as people thought he did become great football player. Obviously he trained really hard and he even became top score in Serie A even though he was a Midfielder. this was great achievement.

Why did he become such great player? This is because he loved football. He loved football more than anything else in the world except his family of course. But he was alwyas kicking the ball if he had time and that made him so special. If people want to get good at something they have to like the something that they do.

Dissapointment!!!

What happened to them?! That what most people thought when Urawa Reds Football club failed to retain The J-League. They were in the driving seat to win the title yet they could not retained it. Surely something must happened to the former J-League Champion. They only need to win one game in last 3 games yet they failed to win all of them. I believe they were tired from all the hard schedule they been through, and they might became over confident after becoming Asian Champion.

They did not play like Champions in last 3 games. They were team that has no spirit and their motivation was very low. They played like they did not want to win the matches. The worst thing was that they fail to score on last 3 games. They had great attacking player yet none of them failed to show the potential that they have.

Next year, I hope they come back getting stronger than before. They have to learn to win even though they are not upto best of their condition. They have to show that they can be champions again. I hope Urawa have success next year.

Urawa Reds!!

They were just brilliant. They have won the Asian Champions League for the first time in their history and it was first time that Japanese Club had won that major competition. They were so strong and they were bond together as team. Their motivation was so high that during the game many players got clamp because they run like they had never done before yet they still ran till the match finishes. This resulted in winning the competition.

Urawa has many good talent and they were capable of winning big tournament yet they only became successful in last couple of years. At one time they went down to lower division as they could not win any matches. However, they ahd best afns in the world who supported them which lead to winning the Asian Champions league, the biggest tournament in the Asia.

It was the fans that kept pushing team and which made the team what it is today. Not many people think fans do not have any influence on the team, but they are wrong. Fans have major impact on the players and it is because of the fans that team want to win the matches. Fans are everything for the team. It was all support the fans gave that build the team. Fans are big big influence to players.

England!!

I used to live in England and I am big fan of English football. I think English football is best football in the world. However, there were big dissapointment last month. They were knocked out of the European Championship in the qualifiers. It was huge dissapointment fir English society and for me as well. I could not believe the fact that they were knocked out in the qualifier.

At the moment English national team has the best talent in the world yet they lost in the qualifiers. How could that possibly happen? In defence, they have Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Gary Neville and Ashley Cole. In Midfield, they have Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole and Michael Carrick. Up front, they have Wayne Rooney and Peter Crouch. They all are world class player and play for world class clubs. It is unblievable that all these talent can't play in big occasion as European Championship.

I think they can do better. I believe the formation did not suit the way they play. They should done better. It was just terrible display by England. However, They will learn from this defeat and will get stronger I believe. They will have success near future.

Zico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARpEnjZIWko

Many of people, who live in Japan would know the name Zico. He was the manager of Japanese International team till recent time. He quitted or rather got sacked after the World Cup. I do not think he is a great manager yet but he was great player. He was called the god in the football pitch this was because his touches are so magical that everyone could not understand some of the play he produced.

Zico was born in very poor family and they could not even afford to buy shoes for Zico and because he was born in very poor family he was very skinny and that where his name Zico comes from. Zico means little and skinny. However, his parents gave him football as a present and he was very happy that he got present and he was playing with the ball all the time. As he gets older he was becoming unstoppbale and everybody believed that he will become great player and he did become a great player.

He was skinny but his skills covered all the weaknesses in him and he became legend in the football. He was a brillinat player and hope he will become great manager.

tour

I had tour last weekend with my football team and this was the worst football tour I ever went for couple of reason. First reason was that pitch was in the terrible condition. I could not belive the state of the pitch. It was just impossible to play, it was wet and there were holes everywhere, could not belive it.

Second reason was that I did not play to my best. I had injury before the tour, which did not recover by the time of tour and I was not at my best condition. this affected in my play and I was hust terrible, I felt like I was little kid who can't even kick the ball. I was that bad. Every teammate laughed at me because I was so terrible.

Lastly, I got drunk very badly and I don't remember what I did during drinking time. I did not want to get drunk but some of my teammate forced me to drink a lot and I went mad. I do not remember after that. This caused a lot of trouble as I had headache, I felt sick and I could not play football at all. I was just nightmare.

I said to myself in the next tour I will try my best not get drunk and play well in the football field.

Kaka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNJQwHN9lyw

He is at the moment to best football player in the world as most experts say. At the moment he is unstoppable and he is wanted by many clubs because he is so good. He was very much unknown player when he came to AC Milan, one of the biggest football club in the world, however, sice coming to Italy, he exploited his chance and he has shown his potential and now he is called the best.

Everyone had doubt when he came to Italy because nobody knew him very well. However, soon he was regular at the team and he even took away the position of many best players, eg Rui Costa, he was world class player at that time. Nobody knew him at start but now everyone knows him now and he is very popular among the fans.

I believe he will become the legend and he will be remembered in the history of football for long time. Many of the Brazilian football player are poor when they were young but kaka was different because he was born in rich family yet became footballer. Many of rich people in Brazialn society would not become footballer because they usually do other things like buisiness. So kaka is very unusual football player from Brazilian point of view.

Talent for the future

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kiUA_JriWMs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG47FDenyXw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mGx83hOChD4

These 3 boys are talent for the future. Rhain Davis, Jovanny Mijares, Yavru Kartal Muhammed. They are so talented for their age. Rhain and Yavru is 10 years old and Jovanny is only 5. However, for their age, they have fantastic talent. They are amazing.

They are so young yet they are so skillful. Can you imagine five years old dribbling? I certainly can't. When I was 5, I could not even kick the ball. I was sacred fo ball when I was 5 and I remember running away from the ball, but Jovanny is different he goes to ball and takes on everyone like they are not there. He does the thing almost impossible for 5 years old.

Yavru is another person, people are focusing on. He is called the next Ronaldinho. It is true that this is bit over exaggeration but if you watch his plays, people might understand why he is called the Next Ronaldinho.

At last, Rhain. He has scouted by Manchester United recently and he flew to England some day ago. He is fantastic player. He is English-based Austaralian and He was so talented that his grandfather send the DVD to England and got accepted by Manchester United the biggest club in the world. How amazing is that. Hope he develops in England.

All of theses palyers are talent for future. People should check out and remember their name as they might become start in 10 yeas time.

Ronaldiho

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v3DTAck4u6o

He is very exciting player. Many of people say that he is the best player in the world at the moment. There is no argument that he will become the legend in the football history. He is just a fantastic player. He plays are unpredictable and nobody likes to defend against him. this is because people know that if you defend agaist him you are going to get some trouble as he is so quick and skillful.

At the moment people say that he has put on weight and he is not the footballer he used to be, but I still think he is the best. It is true that he is not at his best but he get all kind of claims because people expect more from him as when he is at top for, he is truely magnificent.

I love watching his play because he shows to everyone that football is not about using foots. It about using whole part of body. He is just amazing. He shows the another world of fooftball and I am hoping that he will get back to his best soon.

Death penalty should be Abolished in Japan

I take affirmative position for the proposition, that death penalty should be abolished in Japan.

There are three reasons why I take affirmative position on this proposition;
① Nobody has the right to kill any person and killing murderer by death penalty is same as murder.
② Death penalty costs enormous amount of money and it costs more than life imprisonment.
③ Death penalty does not deter crime rate; in fact, it raises crime rate.

I am going to discuss second point on this issue. Not many people know or realize the costs of death penalty. Do you know how much a death penalty cost? I guess not. This is because this kind of information is not needed in our daily life. However, we should focus on the issue more and take it more seriously for the future.

To start off with, I would like to talk about costs of death penalty in US. US hold massive debt and one of the reasons for the debt is due to death penalty. I believe that US should spend more money on other aspects like education and heath service rather than spending enormous money on death penalty. Now I would like to quote a piece of evidence from book called “The Death Penalty” written by William Dudley. Unquote. Could you take a look at figure 1? This shows the costs of the death penalty in two states from US, Texas and North Carolina. In Texas, $2.3 million is spent per death penalty and in North Carolina; $2.16 million is spent per death penalty. Let’s compare this with the costs of life imprisonment. I would like to quote another piece of evidence. This time source is from internet called “The economics of capital punishments” . Unquote. Now please take a look at figure 2. This shows comparison between the costs of the death penalty and costs of life imprisonment. In Florida, death penalty costs estimate of $3.2 million while life imprisonment only costs $17,000 per year. In Texas, death penalty cost $2.3million per year, in contrast to $12,000 per year for a life imprisonment. This is enormous difference. In fact, Death penalty costs three times more than death penalty and this has created many problems for US. This resulted in financial crisis in US police department. They are out of the budget due to spending too much money on death penalty and this problem became even worse as US police department decided to sack many police men to cut the outcomes. Therefore, fewer policemen are on the streets to stop crimes, when more policemen are needed to stop the crimes.

Same could happen in Japan as Japan is in similar situation to US. Japan like US hold enormous amount of debt as country and the debt is getting bigger and bigger. If Japanese society and government want to cut the outcomes, they have to cut the budget for less important materials. That is I believe death penalty. This is because there are other ways of the justice for crime other than death penalty like life imprisonment for example and I don’t see the point in death penalty when life imprisonment is more effective and cheap.

Now I would like to conclude my opinion. I believe that death penalty should be abolished due to the cost. As in US, from death penalty, they have created many problems like unemployment and financial crisis. This is just breaking the peace of the daily life. Japan can not go the same way as US and to stop this, Japan has to find solution now. Therefore affirmative proposes a change in the present system to abolish death penalty for economical reasons and for the future. To create better life for the people we have to do it now.

This is why I take affirmative position for the proposition, Resolved: That death penalty should be abolished in Japan. I appreciate for your kindness of listening to me. Thank you.

Diego Maradona

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlE1TGLTpsk&feature=related

He is the reason I started to play football. He is left footed and I am left footed as well and he is dribbler like myself. I wanted to be just like him. My father showed me video of him when I was little and I fallen in love to his play once I watched his play. I could not believe that he only uses left foot yet he never gives the ball away and he scores a lot of goals.

He was always my Role model and I was dreaming that one day I will get better than him and do the things he has done or even do the things he never achieved. This dream never came true, but I want to say thank you to him as he is the reason I started to football and football is my life. Without football I can not live.

People only see the abd side of him and not the good side. It is fair to say that He has done a lot of bad things. For instance, taking drugs and fighting on the pitch. However, fact is that he has made revolution in the football as he showed fantastic plays to fans. People should recognise that good things he has done.

I play like him as I can only use my left foot and I love dribbling at opponents. One day I will be better than him.

C. Ronaldo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL5cSfxV5Gs

At the moment, He is one of the best performer in the football match. He has all the skills in the world to show the fans that football is the most beautiful game in the world. His performance are so tremendous that I don't know how he does it. He plays like as though the ball is part of him. It is stock to his foot and it seems like the ball does not want to get away from him.

Everyone had doubt when he came to England. He was to replace the England Captain, David Beckham, The most famous player in the world. People could not belive that Manchester United the Biggest club in the world would replace Beckham for Cristiano Ronaldo who nobody knew about. It turns out that He was good enough or even better than Beckham. he showed to all of the world that he is a world class talent and he is good player.

Any people who likes football would say that he is good as anbody at the moment. There is no one who can stop him once he starts to accelerates and dribbles. He has developed so much since coming to England and he has many fans as his play are so exciting.

Ouch!!!!!!!!!

I had major trouble for 2 reasons last friday. It was so shocking that I could not believe myself when it happened. Well what happened was that I had football competition last saturday and this competition was a competition which my team should win easily I thought. However, result was that we lost in first match and I even injured myself. How bad can you get. Well I would imagine no worse than that.
Why did we lose I don't know, however, it was too early for me to start football match. The match wa from half past 10 and I woke up at 10 o'clock. obviously I was not at best condition. I started playing football half sleep. When the ball came to me I felt like there was a massive stone coming at me which made me feel very scared and it shows how uncomfortable I was with a ball at that time and before I got into the match they scored 2 goals and opponents won very easily. At the same time I pulled my muscle and injured myself, which made me even sad.
I could not believe that we lost the match. We were going to win the competiton and we lost in the first match, how bad is that, and fact I have tounament this thursday makes the situation even worse.

Pele

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy2LI6y5rDI
He is footballing god. He scored more than 1000 goals in his career and he was perfect player. He was just perfect at everything that why he is called the god and his plays are near to perfection most of the time or even evrytime.

obviously he worked fromhis young age and he worked harder than other. this is why he had became the world best player. It is almost impossibel to score 1000 goals in career as footballers' career are very short. However, eve then he reached the 1000 goals adn there are only 2 person who reached 1000 goals. There are Pele and Romario.

For me, I have only seen Pele's play on videos because he played football before I was born. However, the story of Legend Pele would be talked over and over again in the present and future.

The Runner

Ｉ have read the book called “The runner”. This book was written by Cynthia Voigt. I have chosen this book because this story is about working hard in order to achieve your goal. I play football so I was inspired by this book.

The story is about a boy called Bullet. He only believes in himself. He does not trust anyone. This is due how his family treat him especially the way his father tries to treat him. His father always tried to box him. He wanted control Bullet; however Bullet did not like that. That why he never listened to his father. This is reason why Bullet started to think that it only himself that he should trust. He is a runner and his is one of the best in school. The only way to calm him down and get away from his father was running. He worked hard to be the runner of his thought.

His mother understands how Bullet is feeling. However, never said anything this is because she felt there is no need for her to speak. She felt that she did not like the way her husband treated Bullet, but knew there was not much that she could do, so she just kept her feeling inside her. She only helped Bullet whenever, Bullet needed her..

Bullet also had brother and sister. They both went out of house due to his father. His brother was called Johnny. Johnny was clever and smart. Johnny argued a lot with his father because there were a lot of things that he did not like about his father. He did not like the way his father tries to box him. He obviously could not stand his father and got out of house. His sister Liza went out of the house for same reason. Liza was kind person but she was slow or some people might call it stupid. That why her father did not like her, so his father tried to do everything he can to drive her away and finally she went away with her boyfriend. Bullet thinks that both of them have made right choice of getting out of the house. He misses both of them, but especially Liza because her kind personality influenced him a lot. All of child does not like his father.

In school, there are his coach and his friends. Obviously because of the way he thinks he does not have much friend. Some people might say he does not have friend at all. He did not need in fact, because he believed only himself. He thought that it is only himself that he can trust. His running coach wanted him to work with Tamer Shipp. However, Bullet did not want to. The coach thought because both of them are good runners by working them together they will both improve. Bullet did not like it, so he only worked by himself. He did not listen to the coach. However, Tamer did not understand why Bullet did not want to work with him. At start there are a lot of conflicts between the two, but as the story goes on they start to understand each other. They get influenced by good side of each other.

There is one more important person in this story and that is Patrice. She is very important. This is because she did not mind the way the bullet was she liked the bullet as he was. She was just about only person bullet trusted beside Liza. She was the only person that Bullet showed weak side of him.

In this story, Bullet never changes. From the start till the end. It shows that he has strong mind. There are many cases that people might think that there are something wrong with him because of way he thinks, however, he attained his mind and never let in what other people said. If I were him I could not have done it. Important thing is that just do what people believe in. never let anyone else disturb you from what you like.

I liked this book very much because it taught me the importance of trusting yourself.　This book is much recommended. This is because in a way this influences people a lot especially people who play sports. It does not matter how good oneself is. People need to train hard in order to achieve the goal. People need to understand that sometimes it is only ones self that people can trust and nobody else. It is not saying that other people should not be trusted. It is saying that people need to believe themselves because that will read to one’s confidence. In other word, people only need to accept the people that will understand them. No matter whom they are. As long as they understand how one is thinking and feeling. People only need few people who understand them.

Didier Drogba

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iz3W98wdQsU
Hottest striker at the moment is didier Drogba. He is scoring goal after goal and he is just unstoppable at the moment. Some of the goals he scores are true beauty and it would be remebered in the people's memory for the long time. He has got everything that striker need. He is very fast, strong and good finisher, what else does he need. He is different compare to other striker because he works hard in the deffensive area as well as attacking area. Most of the strikers do not deffense, but Drogba deffense like defenders.

For me I have never seen strikers work so hard. In people's mind striker's job is to put the ball in the net, so they do not need to deffend, however, Drogba works so hard that it influences other team mate to work hard. this is how Chelsea got stronger and stronger. Chelsea is strong because everybody works hard.

Didier Drogba can certainly make difference on the pitch. The one great play changes the game completely, he is that good. This is why he is loved by team mate and fans.

Walden

I have read book called Walden written by Henry David Thoreau. This is an autobiography where Henry Thoreau spends two years of his time during 1845 – 1847 in Walden Pond near Massachusetts, where he is trying figure out ways of how he could live by himself and become together with natural environment in order to find life that is different to lifestyle in city. He is trying out new project in order to find self-reliance and what human can do in a place where nothing is prepared.

The main Character in this book is Henry Thoreau himself. This is because everything happens around him. It is who makes things happen as he is trying to do something different by coming to a place where nothing there for him. He does this in order to get satisfaction and to get self-reliance. He was different to everyone because he was free thinker and he was an absolute individual.

The theme of this autobiography is that first self-importance. This is to believe yourself in order to find your own way of living a life. People can’t get help from anyone. Self-reliance is al about finding yourself. He was taught this by his greatest teacher Ralph Emerson. Emerson taught Thoreau that whatever he does, he has to do it for his own good because in the end you have to be independent. This is why Thoreau picked Walden Pond as his new place to live. This is because Walden is a place where nothing is prepared. No house, no tools, no place of work, no nothing. It is just perfect to place for people to find a new of way of life and find yourself.

Another theme of this book is that value of simplicity. This means as it is a pond there is nothing there for him. It is just nature, so he needs to find way to adjust his lifestyle. Before everything was there for him as in the city technology was developing so life in the city was getting easier and comforter. However, now, he lives in place where there is only nature. Which show he must somehow find his own way of living without using technology. He has to use his brain fully in order to use the nature for himself without damaging them. It is not easy thing to do as living with the nature is hard than what people imagine. However, once he finds his way through it is a best place to live. Living with nature is fun for him as he is learning from the nature day by day. For example ants fighting with each other just seem nothing for most of people but for Thoreau it is a lesson to learn. He had great imagination and connected this with war. When he was looking at the ants he thought of how to stop people from fighting war. He is learning from animals, nature that he is looking at.

The last theme is that illusion of progress. This means that life and year goes by the circle. It goes in circle because year has a season. Spring, summer, autumn and winter. These are the four season in the year. In each season there is different things occurs. For example I winter pond turns into ice. This is because it is so called that water turns in ice. It is simple thing, but it is beautiful part of the nature. It is also ironic that this autobiography starts in spring and finishes in spring this is because he was a Christian. So show that he was Christian, he must starts in spring or Easter as people might call it.

One of the major conflict in this book is Thoreau hated civilized American life. He wanted something new. Why are people happy with living in same place where nothing is different. Just same old boring lifestyle. Why can’t people be independent. He thought that people have to be more independent and not getting help by anyone. People have to live by themselves. That why he went Walden pond to show people that people are strong enough to live by themselves and that even though he was poor there are ways to find a better life.

Symbols in this autobiography are animals, ice and Walden Pond.

Animals because they teach Thoreau everything that needs to be taught in order to live in a place of nature. Obviously at the start he didn’t know anything about it. That why he watched animal live to see get the idea and was learning from it. Animals play a big part in his life as he learns a lot of thing from them. He was good at connecting life in pond into life civilized area, so he just connected every single incident that has occurred him in a pond to civilized American life and he carefully thought how he could improve a life in civilized American life into more decent life.

Ice is because symbol a real nature. As winter comes it gets cold and pond start to freeze therefore most part of lake is covered with ice. It is unbelievable thing. People can7t get this over in civilized area and so it is a beautiful part of nature.

Walden Pond, this is because this is the place Thoreau picked and everything takes place in here. Thoreau learns everything here and he improves in here. He made so many changes at the pond to make place better for himself.
The climax of this story is when winter turns into spring when ice start to melt and everything changes. The scenery changes, the animals starts to come out again and everything is forgiven because spring came as it is big festival for the Christians. People start to celebrate and it was time for Thoreau to go back home as he had learnt enough and need to tell people that all people should try to do what he did. Where nothing there and people have to open up their lives by themselves.

The point of view of this story is that Thoreau himself. He uses word I so many times to show that he is an independent person and to show that he has a strong character in order to achieve his goal. He went over to do project which was not successful but he gained something from it. He has learnt so many things by living in place where nothing is there, nobody are there. It was an experiment that had some good for him.

I thought this was an excellent book because it teaches you a lot of things. In order to live a life people need to more strong and independent. No wonder he had so much influence on the younger generation because his character was so strong that I want to be just like him. He was sure of what he was doing and he had so much confidence in him. It just show how much self-reliance is important to people. It does looks as though people with more self-confident succeed in their career rather than people who is shy. I don’t know why this is a fact of life. Thoreau was might have been trying to say get more self-confidence in life that how people succeed. People only have one chance in career so make use of that chance. If people want to try something big, do it, do it right now otherwise there will be no chance of success, because later on you might not have chance to do it. People often think that if people don’t succeed it’s a failure but it is not. As long as you get something from it, it is a success for you, it not matter of succeeding, it is matter of trying.
People need to be more independent because people around you will not help you all the time. Someday people have to do everything by themselves, so be more independent. Think about your own self. Do people know everything about themselves? I don’t think so. People think they do but they don’t. People need to avoid that. People need to try harder like Thoreau to find more about each self. Try something new or live in a place where nobody is there. Find your real potential. That what people need to do in our modern life. Most of people think that living in same environment is good this it is not, because people don’t need to work hard to achieve their goal or find way through. It is easy but it not doing anything for you. So go to place where it is completely new for you so that you have made move in order to find your own path.
I do recommend this book to all people who are less confident than other people as this might give you some idea in order to get self-confidence. I don’t have much of self confidence, but by reading this book I am getting some idea of what I should do in order to find better life.

Denilson

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5L7sz5iRkE8

Brazilian football legend. He is a natural winger. People might not heard about him except football maniacs. However, if people watch his play people can understand why he is called the legend. He expresses the good side of football by his plays. It is so exciting that it catches peoples eyes and for me he is a fantasy in football.

His legs move so quickly that people wonder how he does it. It is like he has no bone or joint in his legs that how fast his legs moves. I would say he is a typical Brazilian football as he has original style of dribbling and he just takes on everyone. It is magical to say the least.

He played for spanish team called Betis and Brazilian International. He scares the defenders as he is unstoopable and nobody knows how to stop him.

Titanic

At the time this was the biggest ship, Titanic. Who would have believed in the tragic event that happened at the time. No one. Everybody thought they would have nice journey. Never happened.
This film contains both fictional and non-fictional side. It is true that the ship “Titanic” sank into the Atlantic Ocean, however, it is not true that love story between Jack Dawson and Rose De Witt Bukater has actually happened.
Jack Dawson is a lower class man who was wishing to get on to the ship “Titanic” to find a new life in America. He was betting for the ticket for the Titanic with his friend Fabtrizio and they win it. Jack got his wish to get onto the Titanic.
On the other hand Rose De Witt Bukater was upper class society woman. She was going to America with her fiancé and her mother for little vacation. However, she had troubles inside her mind and even though she was rich she wasn’t happy.
Caledon Hockley is the fiancé of Rose. He was also from upper class society and he was very curious about Jack. For Caledon, Jack was like a litter. Caledon did not like jack and did not want him near Rose. He could not understand the fact that why Rose fall into love with Jack, because jack did not have any money. Caledon thought money was everything.
Ruth De Witt was mother of Rose. Her wish was to get Rose and Caledon married. This was because of her status and money. She did not really care about how Rose felt, 7uth was only thinking about herself and how she can achieve her goal instead of Rose’s.
Captain Smith is another important person in the film. He controlled everything. He was the absolute. However, he made some decision mistake, which read to the tragic event.

Everybody’s dream “Titanic”. Anybody would want to get on it once in a life time. Jack was betting in the pub nearby port where Titanic is awaiting. Jack wins the bet and he finally gets his wish. Jack and his friend were delighted and they quickly board on as the ship is just about to depart. About 5 minutes before that Rose arrives with her mother and straight after that her fiancé arrives with their cars. They get on for the vacation journey to the US.
As jack and his friend Fabrizio boards on, they are so happy that they jump and run around everywhere. Even though they were not rich they were happy that they got onto the ship. While jack and Fabrizio were making friend, Rose were worried about her future did not know what to do. She was not happy with her life. She wanted get away from her life so she decided to attempt suicide. However, just as she tries to suicide into the sea, Jack comes and stops her from suicide. This was first time they met. Before there were nothing common between Jack and Rose. They lived in completely different world. She was rich and he was poor. It was like a miracle. Jack stops Rose from her suicide and helps her out. Rose invites Jack to the first class dinner on the next day to say thank you and introduce Jack to her family. However, Jack has never ate food of this kind and does not know how to eat it, so Rose’s fiancé and other members of family were very curious about Jack.
After that Jack invite Rose to his world. Rose has never seen world of this thought. It was so fresh to her. First she was bewildered by this thought but as she get used to it she gets into it more and more. She never enjoyed like this in her life time. However, her fiancé sees this and was very angered by the action she took.
Family member of Rose and fiancé Caledon were very worried about Rose. This is because they knew that Rose was falling in love with Jack. They also knew that they had to everything from getting Rose and Jack together. However, Jack and Rose knew that nothing can come between them. It was true love. As jack and Rose run away from Caledon and other family member Rose and Jack’s love become stronger. They bond together more.
Then as that goes on tragic event happens. The great ship”Titanic” crashed into big ice which breaks the ship. Water is come into the ship very quickly and everybody had to get out and escape from the ship very quickly. However, the chase between Rose, Jack and Caledon has not finished. Caledon even tries to kill Jack in order to get Rose back. In the end he decided to give up and escapes from the ship. As Jack is no classed as upper class, he can not get onto the emergency boat, so Rose decided to stay with him till the end. The ocean was so cold that it is taking energy from Rose and jack. Jack decided to help Rose out by letting her sit on the broken part of the ship. They waited for the boat to come, but it does not come. Jack finally sinks into the sea just like the ship itself. However, few hours after that boat came to rescue Rose.
There is couple of conflict in this story. First there are conflict between Caledon and Jack. They are fighting over Rose. They both think they are the one for Rose, however, in the end Rose chooses Jack. This showed that it is not the money which moves humans heart it is the love which moves human’s heart.
Second conflict is the gap between the societies. This was set in 1912 so gap between the poor and the rich was very big. Therefore the rich had more advantage than rich in any case. This was showed in the film as rich people were first to get onto the boat while poor had to wait in the freezing cold ship.
Thirdly, there were conflict between Rose and her mother. Her mother was dying for Rose to marry with Caledon. However, Rose did not want to marry with Caledon. She did not want to marry him just because the money, she wanted to marry someone who loved. That was Jack. Her mother did not like that because she wanted money and for her status, Rose marrying Caledon was must thing.
Finally, there were conflict between Rose and her society. In those days, it was almost forbidden to marry someone from same status. However, Rose went against that rule and went for someone who was much lower status than her. This is going against the society at the time. Why would you go from rich to poor.　It was just unthinkable. People did not like the way Rose went about her life.
As conclusion, I liked the way the film has been set. This is because the gap between rich and poor gets bigger and bigger, however, it showed love can not get influenced by money. Staying with someone who you love most is the most important thing in your life. Sometimes the environment changes your life. However, love can also change your life. Love shows you the new world which you have never seen before. Love sometimes makes hatred and anger, but it also creates love and peace which people and society are looking for. At the moment there is no peace in our life this is because there are no love in the world.

Robinho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChwH7hcfz8

He will be next star as some expert say. Even Pele said that "He will become Legend." Pele has been called the god in the football world. He has got the great skills and defenders can't guess what he is going to do. he is so skillful and quick that there are good chance that he would become legend.

He is Brazilian and he has his original tempo when he dribbles. It is almost like samba when he is dribbling. he is just like dancing when he is dribbling. However, nobody can't touch him when he is dribbling other than fouling him. He is great dribbler. He is small yet he has very strong body and he does not get knocked over so easily.

He was playing for Santos which is big club in Brazil but now he moved to Real Madrid which is even bigger club as Real Madrid is one of the biggest club in the world and it is very famous all over the world. If he improve more and more in Madrid, he will become the greatest.

Important Relationships

I have many important relationships that I want to talk about, but today I will talk about friends in England and this university.

I went to England when I was 11 years old and we know each other since then. We’ve known each other for nearly 8 years now. We did everything together. It was just so fun. We once run the public road naked. We did a lot of stupid things together. We smashed a school window when we were playing football, we played golf and hit a car with the ball we hit and we played knock a door run in the neighbourhood and got told off.

We became friend because we were both interested in different culture and background we have. We were very similar in personality but from different countries. He was born in England, but I was from Japan. It was just so weird. We talked about the different culture we have and we naturally became friend.

We can tell everything to each other. When I was feeling down, he always gave advice to me and made me happy and I did same to him. When we got into trouble, we always helped each other to find a way out.

He is my best friend and he will be my best friend forever.

Now, I would like to talk about friend in this university. I am really in good friendship with 3 of boys in this university. I have known one of boy for about year and two of boys for about 2 months now. It seems short time, but we did a lot of things together during this time. It is only for short time that we have been together, but it seems like we have known each other for ages.

We did a lot of stupid things together as usual. We sometimes sing in dining hole, laugh at each other and there are lot more stuff we do, but it is so many and dangerous that I can’t write on.

However, it seems that we only do stupid things but we actually help each other when we need it. I’m getting helped out most of course. They just so kind and helpful, they help me out when I need it most. There are not many people like them.

I hope can stay friends with them forever as memories we made so far is just so unforgettable that I want to make more history with them.

David Bekcham

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UF9Pahclz3Y

Many people argue that his popularity off the pitch does not the match the ability on the pitch. However, I believe that he is one of the great and there are something special about him. He has married with singer from spice girl Victoria who is celebrity and he has three kids. It is very true that his looking made him famous as he is now, but also his play were so fantastic that how he started to get notice by many people.

His strongest point are free kicks. he has his own sttle of kicking the ball and his free kicks are perfect most of time and it has good chance of getting in the net. He showed that he is a great player by captaining England and giving great performance for the country. Some people say that he is too slow and he can't to do anything other than free kick, but he gives more than free kicks on the pitch. he has great determination and carries and pushes the team.

He has played for Manchester United and Real Madrird which is the biggest clubs in the world and this shows the ability of him. Now he has gone to America to play for Los Angeles galaxy. I hope he success in America.

Contrast between “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “Dip in the pool”

There are many many books all over the world today. Out of all books Roald Dahl is different compare to other authors in the world. His stories are so mysterious and unpredictable which interested me. Out of all stories he wrote, I have chosen to write about “lamb to the slaughter” and “Dip in the pool”. This is because I liked both of stories as I felt passion in the story and the fact that people cannot imagine what is going to happen next attracted me to the story. “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “Dip in the pool” have differences and similarities.

“Lamb to the Slaughter” is about a story of a couple. The husband came back one day looking very serious. The wife named Mary Maloney was wandering what was wrong with him. The husband Patrick Maloney wanted to divorce Mary due to the fact he has got a lover and wanted to be with the lover and not with Mary. Mary could not understand the fact that Patrick wanted to divorce her. She loved him so much that the love became anger and hatred, and out of nowhere she decided to kill Patrick as she is out of her mind. Mary kills him with leg of lamb and needed to make perfect alibi by destructing the evidence. Mary uses her friendship between her and policemen as her husband was policeman. She persuades policemen in order to destroy the evidence. Finally the policemen were persuaded by Mary and ate the evidence therefore Mary gained a perfect alibi.

“Dip in the pool” is a story about an auction on the ship. Mr. Botibol was on the ship for the auction. He was getting all the information he could get in order to win the auction. The auction was about how far ship could advance in limited amount of time. This depends on the weather of the sea. When the weather is sky blue, the ship could advance far far away. However, when the weather is bad ship doesn’t move as much as usual because ship need to advance safely. Mr. Botibol needed to win the auction in order to buy a car, which his wife wanted for a long time. He decided to bet all of his savings therefore if he loses him and his wife have no money. This was a very dangerous bet. On the day of auction weather was awful and there was no prophecy of moving so far. Mr. Botibol therefore decided to bet on a least distance ship would move. However, next morning the weather was all sunshine which means he would lose the bet, so somehow he needed to turn around his fortune. He came up with a plan which he thought would work. This plan was to fall in the sea, so the ship would stop. However, this plan did not work as witness he found was mentally ill, so nobody believed her, therefore Mr. Botibol was left in the sea.

The difference between two stories is love between the couples. In “Lamb to the Slaughter”, the love between the couple is completely broken. The husband wanted to divorce with the wife, and love is turning into anger which eventually turns into murdering her husband. However, in “Dip in the pool” the husband tried to win the auction for his wife. There is love in what he was trying to do. He wanted to win the auction to buy a car for his wife. He just wanted to see his wife smiling.

Next difference is in how a witness helps the convict. In “lamb to the Slaughter” Policemen is the witnesses for the murder of Mr. Maloney. They help the killer by eating the evidence as they were persuaded by the murderer, Mrs. Maloney. However, in “Dip in the pool” the witness doesn’t help the main character at all. The witness seemed to be a nice person and it looked as though she would help him, but the person was mentally ill, and people did not believe what comes out from her mouth. Therefore this prevented her from saving Mr. Botibol, who was going to lose the bet.

The similarities between the two stories are that both of the main characters tried to get away from the wrong thing they have done. In “Lamb to the Slaughter”, Mary Maloney tried to get away from the crime she has done by destroying the evidence and making alibi for herself, and in “Dip in the pool”, Mr. Botibol also tried to do similar thing. Mr. Botibol tried to win the bet by stopping the ship. He didn’t want to lose the bet as he would lose all of his and his wife’s life savings, so he needed to do something. The plan he came up with was stopping the ship in order to get away from the mistake he has made.

The next similarity is that both of settings are very similar. In “Lamb to the Slaughter”, the couple is not very rich and this was same in “Dip in the pool”. Both of couples are not very rich, however, wanted to be rich, so they needed to do something in order to become rich. In “Lamb to the Slaughter”, the husband wanted to divorce with the wife, because he wanted to concentrate on his job. In “Dip in the pool”, Mr. Botibol must have thought that betting was the only way to become rich.

Both of stories are very interesting and I recommend both of stories. However, if I had to choose one of the stories I recommend “Dip in the pool”. This is because this story is so unpredictable that it is just unimaginable. This story was completely different from all of other books I have read. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was also fascinating and people can see the dark side of human. Both stories are thrilling and enjoyable.

Ryan Giggs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1KJMF2SjM

For me, he is a legend. He is called Ryan Giggs. He is one of my favourite players of all time. I saw his play when I was very young. I wanted to be just like him. he only uses left foot, but he never gives ball away and he just takes on every one like they are not there. He has magical left foot. he does not need right foot because his left foot is just perfect.

It is very surprising to hear that great player like him has never played in World Cup which is the biggest event in football. He is welsh international and I must say Wales is not strongest international side in Europe like England or France, So he always loses in qualifying stages. However, he shold have played in World Cup because many of the people want to see his great plays.

He only played for one team that is Manchester United. It shows the loyalty and shows his great personality. he is very nice man off the pitch and if you ask to take picture with him he will always take photo with you.

I always wanted like him but dream never came true.

An NGO I respect

I admire NGO called Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation Research Centre (CLARRC). This Organization searches about how we can prevent wasting natural resource and turn that extra energy into power. Nowadays we are wasting more than enough water. However, not many people realize we are actually wasting it, and as results of that there are more and more places becoming contaminated.

The Earth today has a lot of problem, Water pollution, waste management, contaminated water and soil, increase in brown field and so on. We need to somehow stop these problems, and that what exactly this organization trying to do.

This organization is set at university of Edinburgh. They have huge amount of resource in order to solve the problem in the world. What they do is that they have four different researches.
1. Academic Research – subsurface modeling
2. Contract Research – waste management
3. Laboratory Analysis – environment
4. Commercial Service – remediation

They do this in order to help the world from getting damaged. They are doing everything they can to make the earth better place to live. Where nothing is wasted and where new technology and nature combines well to make nice harmony meaning no more damaging of Earth.

I have chosen this organization because Edinburgh is near where I used to live and also I want the world where the technology and nature matching well to help each other so that it will be good place to live for anyone and for any creature.

Paolo Di Canio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnI7DE6y8Hs
Not many of people have good image of Paolo Di Canio or even not many people heard of Paolo Di Canio. This is because he is not the greatest player of all time, however, he would be remembered for action on and off the pitch.

He has very unique personality in my point. His action are very funny. For example he gives yellow cards and red cards to refrees and in some case he even hit refrees. this is very unsual and I have never seen anyone who have done such things expect him. As football wise, he is not the greatest but he showed magic once in while and some of his goals would be in memory of many football fans.

I would not push Di Canio as his actions are very immoral sometimes and he is not good role model for the kids , but he is certainly one of great player which would remembered by many people.

Roberto Baggio

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mOPbT-nRNzs

Many people know him for missing penalty in the world cup final in 1994, but this is not real him. He is brilliant player and nobody can't deny his talent at football. after the world cup he left a comment saying "only person who can miss a penalty is who is brave enough to take the penalty." This is very true as many people chicken out when they take penalty as there are too much pressure on them to take it. In penalty, people in position where they have to score and they can't miss.

All the great plays he made was during early 1990's when he was at his best. He played football until he was 40. however, I like the play of his early 20's. he was unstoppable. when he dribbles nobody can't stop him and when he shoots it just goes straight into the goal that wonderful he was during his best. As hegot old he lost his speed and power, but gained experience and technique. he was loved by the fans and I like his play too.

Paul Scoles

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GL36aWuCX5A

Not many people would heard his name but he is one of the fantastic player of all time. He has been playing for Manchester United all his career and he got better and better as he got older. Some people calls him ginger ninja or is it just me and my friend that calls him like that. Well why do we call him ginger ninja? First his hair colour is ginger and fact that he moves like ninja on the football pitch, we named him ginger ninja.

He became proffessional as same time as David Beckham and gary Neville and Ryan Giggs, but Beckham became famous for his looks and Paul Scholes was shadowed by Beckham. However, after beckham left Manchester Paul scholes became central figure in Manchester and he was loved by fans as he scores vital goals in important game, and he scores great goals. Screamer after screamer.

I love watching his plays. It just so powerful for small guy like him. It can't not be imagined from his body, but he is powerful than anybody on the football pitch. Who says small player can't success. well not him.

Wasedasai

On saturday after I went to aosai, I went to wasedasai. This is same as aosai but difference is that this is at different school called waseda and this is very famous university in Japan.

There were many people in here as well. There were too many people which made me sick in the end. I could not believe my eyes when I saw how much people there were in that school. There were virtually no place to walk or move.

Any way the reason I went to wasedasai was the fact that I went to see my friend in that university and other reason was that I went to see comedian called "yoshio kojima." He is becoming famous in Japan as he is bit weird nut funny in a way. He is very odd and his actions are just I don't know how you call it but just weird. When I saw him I could notstop laughing because he was weird and he was just wearing underwear in this freezing cold weather. Any way I enjoyed his show and I was very happy that I saw him on real life and not on TV.

Both festival was very enjoyable and I was very happy with it.

Aosai

I went to aosai on Saturday. this is a occasion where school students open up shops to sell the products to any people. I did not open any shop due to the fact that my team could not get the place in festival, so I decided to have a walk around with my friend.

When I went to the festival, there were a lot of people, it was just full of people. Every students was shouting very loudly in order to sell the products. There were many shops and they were selling many kind of things. They were selling yakisoba, ice cream, oknomiyaki, juice, takoyaki and many many more. I just can't remember all because there were too many things to remember.

One thing that made me sad was that fact that I was not involved in the festival. I wish I was there to sell the product and not just walk around and do nothing. I wish I was part of it. Next year, I want to sell something and enjoy more of the festival.

Matt Le Tissier

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pfpP3zOfEPs

I don't think many of people heard his name, but he is the one of the fantastic player I have seen in my life time. To say more he is best free kick taker I have ever seen. His free kicks are so full of imagination that nobody knows what going to happen.

He is just wonderful player. However, not many people know. Do you know why? because he played for small team called southampton which I believe not many people heard of. He had offer from Manchester United but he rejected the offer because he loved the city and fans at southampton. He loves the locals.

He did not play for England much either due to all injuries he had. However, people believe that he should had more caps for England international, and I believe so too. He was just different class to other player and for me, he is a legend and some of the his goals are just screamer and there are no other word to describe it.

Bergkamp

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3CqR6h8pxOo

Non flying dutchman. That what he was called in his playing career. He was very different to all of dutch player. People have the mind of dutch people been very aggresive and runs as though they have stamina which never ends. Dennis Bergkamp was not right that. He does not run much but what he does was in one word "spectacular". People do not how he does it but the most of the goals are screamer.

He was born in Holland and he is one of the hero in Holland. He got capped more than 80 times for the national team of Holland and he has experience of captaining the national side. He was just fantastic say the least.

People loved his play especially in England, everyone liked him. He had very good personality and fans loved him. When he retired from footbal lscene, a lot of people cried as they were sad that they cannot see his play any more. He was loved by everyone that why He was a great Player.

Ibrahimovic

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zRCWJFmsQVU

People who likes football wolud know him, but for people who does not know much about football would not know him. He is not famous as other legend in the football. However, He has a chance to become legend in football I believe.

He is Swedish guy and he is very very tall. he is 192cm tall, however, his plays are very prcise and wonderful. He will always be make the fans happy by his play. He is known as bad boy in the football field. He is very bad tempered and he get angry very easily and the fact that he used to karate might help that. However. I like his play. There is something special about him. He sometimes do the things people can't imagine. Its so unpredictable that it catches peoples' eyes.

He is very talented and I believe soon or later he will become the world's best football player. He is near that, but he has not reach the top yet. If he improve as he is now he has very good chance of becoming legend in the football world.

Movies

I like watching movies and most recent film that I have watched was "HERO". This film was used to be TV series and because it was so famous that it became movie. I used to watch TV series of this film and it was very enjoyable. I liked it very much, so I decided to go see the movie with my friends.

The movie was very interesting too. It was fun, but it was very deep as well. It was telling us the importance of our lives. In normal daily life, I don't think people think about how lucky we are to live in this world and how precious our lives are. However, from this movie I learnt about that. Life is beautiful and we should get the best out of it.

From now, I will enjoy my life even more and will get the best out of it in order to live life which I will notregret in the future.

Gerrard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STasHB5EWdo

He is just fantastic player. He is my favourite player of all time. I believe is he is one of the best midfielder in the world at the moment. He has git everything power, skill, mentally and more he has got everything fooftballer need.

When I saw his play, I felt in love with him. His plays are so poweful yet he is so skillful and beautiful. His shot are so powerful that it is unstoppable for any keeper in the world. He plays for team called liverpool and he is also captain of the team as well. With his great passion and determination he leads his team well.

I wish I could be like him. However, there are no chance for me to be like him. He is my great role model and he will always be my favourite player.

Spanish

At the moment I am struggling with spanish. It is very hard and I don't know why I chose this language. I wish I can stop taking it soon or later. However, I had a reason why I chose spanish that is I want to speak to Zidane and Messi in Spanish. They are both not spanish but they live or used to live in Spain, so they can speak Spanish. So one day, I am hoping to intreview them in spanish.

I t is going to be hard though. I do not understand Spanish at all. It is just completely new world to me. When teacher speak in Spanish to me, I do't know whether teacher is speaking in English, Spanish, French or angolian or whatever other language there is. It's just confuses me completely. I feel like I am not in Japan. I feel like I am in the place where I ahve never been before.

However, If I learn and spanish and if I get the Spanish I would make me happy than ever before because it means that I am getting close to my dream of interviewing Zidane and Messi. I hope that this dream will become true.

Try to get fit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oxZE9jqnf8

Nowadays, I'm becoming very unfit and I know why because I am razy I have not played sports for while. So I decided to get fit by Billys' boot camp which became centre of attention in Japan as people say that its good for diet. People say it is very hard work, but I did not believe them because I felt it can't be too hard for me as I used to be sportsman and It won't be too difficult.

The fact was that it was very very hard work and I could not stand it. It was just too much work for me. I gave up after 5 seconds. Every part of my body was killing. it was a pain that I never felt before. I thought I would do this for my fitness but it made me more unfit and I lost my confidence on my fitness. I thought I was better than that, but fact was I am not the person I used to be.

I learned that I should train more frequently in order to keep fit.

Fantastic Plays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oxZE9jqnf8

I like watching play which people enjoy to watch. I like doing it as well, however, these plays are not easy as it looks.

In one of football match, I did a thing which I will never forget. It was just terrible. I looked like right idiot. At the moment I felt like I could die.

It was very important football match between my school and other school which I did not know. If we win we were into final of the tournament and it would have been the first time in the school history that my school would be in the final. I knew it was not the easy match but I felt confident that we could win it.

We started to well as we had the much of the ball. We played some nice football, but one play changed everything and it was my needless play that changed the game completely. It was a middle of first half I got a ball in my own half and I don't know why but all of sudden I felt I want to be like Zidane and tried to be fancy and tried skill that I never had success before. Results was I missed and fallen down on floor and gave a goal to another team. This changed all. We lost the game and everyone was laughing at me because I did stupid thing.

The game was fun and I wish I could go back and play it again. This time I want to win it.

Messi

He is same age as me, yet he is more famous than me. I wish I could be as famous as him one day.

I am bit jealous of him because he is better fooballer than me and he is better looking than me.

Anyway, he is a great footballer. For me, he is one of the best footballer in the world at the moment. Once he starts to dribble with ball, no one can stop him. He is just unstoppable. I don't know how he does it, nobody can stop him without fouling him.

I play football myself, but everyone stops me. I don't know why, but I think its easy to stop me. It is unbelevable, how easy people get ball off me.

I know the fact that I need to practice more and need to work hard but as I am a razy person I can not be bothered doing such hard work. I think before try to be like Messi in football, I need to learn how to work hard.

At Birthday Party

Last saturday I went my friend's birthday party. It was very enjoyable. We had Italian for the dinner and it was very delicious. I ate pizza, but it was so beautiful that while I was eating the pizza, I nearly fallen love with pizza that I was eating.

After dinner, we went to bowling and that was terrible. My condition was at my top form after eating my favourite food, but my performance was just disastrous. Saying that all of my friend were in terrible form except one but it was just terriblle. I had score of 37 which was worst record that I ever made.

Anyway we had fun time and overall it was good, however, the bowling score just got on my nerves. I am going to practice my bowling skill now.

Eat Much as you can

Couple days ago, I went a restaurant where you can eat much as you want with my friend. In that restaurant there were so many foods around me that I felt I was in some kind of paradise. I started to munching in all the food I can as I was starving. There were so much food that I was not able to eat all of the food, but I must ate must of the food. What I found so interesting was that there were so much sweets. I love sweets and It was just another world. I have ate all the sweets.
However, toruble came soon after. I have ate too much that I started to get sick and got stomache as well. So I run into toilet and must stayed there for 2 hours.
There was a lesson that eating is goog thing but you have to stop at your limit, otherwise you will be out of control after it.

Singing

I love singing song. whenever I have time, I'll be singing song. I don't really have any favourite kind of music, but I just like singing song. One day in my apartment I was listening to song and as I was listening to songs I felt like I wanted to sing song. I started to sing very loudlt. I am loud anyway, but when I sing song I get even louder. I must sang for more than 30mins. I started to get little tired, and all of the sudden, there was knock on the door. I slowly went to the door and looked out who was there. It was my next door neighbour, looking little angry. I slowly opened the door and she said, "I don't mind you singing. However, its too loud. Everyone in the apartment can hear it!! youknow this is only an small apartment!!!"
I said, " I did not mean to disturb you. I am very sorry. Please forgive me for the loud mouth"
She said " think about other people next time ok? see you!"
She taught me a lesson saying I should think about people around me and not only about myself.

Foul

I don't like fouls. I saw the boxing game between Kameda and Naitoh which was big game in Japan, however, the sportmanship that Kameda side showed was outrageous and I could not belive what I saw. In any sports sportsmanship is very important because this shows the respect to other team or to other player.
In this game it was so obvious that Naitoh had better of the kameda. Naitoh was very strong and there was no way that Kameda could win in my eye. I think Kameda side knew this also. So what the Kameda side try to do is that damage Naitoh by fouling him. I could believe my eye. This was a boxing match, but it was like watching wrestling match. There was no sportsmanship in Kameda side. It was just sad to see such thing. He was not fighting, he was just fouling and losing the reputation that he build.
In any game you should not foul people. People should try their best and play fairy. if people do that even though they might lose the game people gain respect and will be good for the future. I think every sportsman need to know sportsmanship for the fans who watches the game.

Second Life

Second life as some people might know, virtual world, which people live in as people's imaginery person or the person you wish to be. People say that it is very enjoyable and fun, however, I don't really understand the concept of this program.
I first got on and I was already stock, I did not what to do. I walked around island for about 3 hours, but I had no idea what to do. I talked to a lot of people, however, nobody knew what to do. So I just walked around for another hour or so try to communicating to other people. What I found interesting is that there are people from all over the world. I spoke to a person fom india and he was very kind to me. This system is good in a way because people can communicate to a person all over the world, but bad side is that you don't know who you are talking to. You thought you are talking to a girl but infact you might be talking to a man.
Anyway, this whole thing is too complicated for me and I don't know when I am going to get used to the system.

At work

I work at convenience store nearby my house and couple days ago there were one incident that happened which I will never forget for long time.
That day was bright sunny and there were not many customers till one guy came in. Usually not many customers come to this store and I was relaxing and talking to a friend who is my colleague at work. Then sudddenly a man came in. He looked about 40years old and wearing very rich clothes. Hecame to buy a bottle of coke and bread with jam on it. This was same as usual but then he started to talking to me and from now things get weird. he asked to me "what do you think to my clothing?"
So I said, "It's very nice, Sir".
"What brand do you think this is?"
"I don't know, Sir" said I.
"Well this is all Gucci, It very expensive!!!!" his words are getting exciting and his voice are getting louder and louder.
I did not know what to say so I just said "wow"
Then he suddenly became angry at my reaction and said
"You don't believe me do you? I will show yo my everything to show that this is expensive".
Then out of nowhere He started to take his clothes in front of everyone and showed me his underwear, then he said,
"This cost 20000yen"
I tried to stop him but he was unstoppable and he took off his clothes so fast that there were no chance to stop him.
Then all of the sudden lots of people came into the store and looking at him or even staring at him.
He got excited by everyoen looking and started to run around the store, he runs like rabbit and he was so quick. I run after him but I looked like a idiot because I could not catch up to him. However, few minutes later police came to the store and once the police came the guy run out of the store like a bullet train with taking his clothes. I don't know what happen to him afterwards, he was very strange.
funny thing was that he came to store week later to get his clothes, but it was already trashed in the bin.

My Aim

Zinedine Zidane. Alomost every people who knows and like football would know this player. He was for me the best player ever. People say Maradona and Pele are better than him but for me he is better. Zidane was different to other player, his play are spontaneous and fantasy, knowbody can not guess what he is going to do next. He was a legend.

I started football because of him. first time I saw his play, I felt in love. It was a football that I never saw before. I don't know how to describe it, but it was just amazing. From then I ｔrained real hard try to be like him, but I couldn't. I believe I did not train hard enough. However, Zidane is still my hero and always be my aim. I am hoping that one day, I can be as good as him.

I have lost it!

I played football couple days ago, but I was just so terrible that it nearly made me cry. However, I knew the reasons for to me so bad that day. First reason is that I had not played football for couple month, therefore my body was not ready to play football, second reason is that for the couple of month that I was not playing football, I did not do any sports or moved my body therefore my stamina was not upto standard.
Anyway I was so shocked to the fact that I was not able to play to my usual standard. It was just unbelievable to think that how much I lost in just couple month, and I realized that I am not young anymore and it was hard for me to get back to the standard I used to be.
I have lost it. Oh no!

Too Much

I have got so many things to do. It's unbelievable. I tried to them, but I can't because there are so much temptations. I get on my desk and try to concentrate, however, all of sudden there are TV looking at me and I cannot resist the tempation, so I say to myself I'll watch Tv for an hour then get back to work. Then an hour later, I am still watching the TV and saying to myself another hour will not do any harm to me. This goes on and on, then I looked at time it already 3o'clock. Oh no, I watched TV too much, leave the work for the next day and good night.

Why?

It getting cold nowadays. I can't believe it. it was hot as dessert before, but now it cold as ice cream. I don't understand. Why did wheather change so suddenly? My body can't keep up with wheather cange and I got cold, and the fact that I can't be half naked in the house because it too cold gets on my nerves and stresses me.
Another fact that I'm angry is that My PC is too old and it does not work very well. Why? It does not do what I want the PC to do. It just terrible. Oh~ It gives me stress.

IE Internet

I have started this blog for IE Seminar. Whether I use it after this class is unknown, however I am aiming to get best of this website while I am at this class.

Now I would like to introduce myself. My name is Takashi. I am student of university in Japan. I love football. Everything about me is about football, in fact my whole life is about football. Some people call me "football maniac", but who cares!!! That how much I am into football.

I have chosen this class because I've heard that this class was easy. However, that not the only reason I chose this course. I was fascinated by program of course. This course offers to learn both use of internet and use of English at same time, which interested me, so I am hoping to improve both English PC skills.